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NEW YORK — The New York Rangers showed their toughness in earning another shootout win Saturday night. A stunning shootout loss earlier Saturday means the Vancouver Canucks will have another opportunity to display their resiliency on six-game Eastern Conference road trip.The Rangers will look to continue their recent surge Brock McGinn Jersey Kids , and the Canucks will hope to once again bounce back from a shootout defeat, when New York hosts Vancouver Monday night at Madison Square Garden.Both teams extended their points streak to six games Saturday.Article continues below ...The Rangers came back from a second-period deficit after blowing a two-goal lead and earned a 5-4 shootout win over the host Columbus Blue Jackets on Jimmy Vesey’s game-winner in the fifth round of the shootout. The visiting Canucks squandered a two-goal lead in the final three minutes of the third period and fell to the Buffalo Sabres in the shootout, 4-3.The Rangers (8-7-2) have won five of their last six (5-0-1), a span in which they’ve won three times in the shootout. The six-game stretch has been eventful, but in posting four comeback wins and salvaging a point when it blew a two-goal lead in 3-2 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night, a rebuilding New York squad is proving it has a resourceful base.“I think it just shows a lot of mental strength that we have,” Rangers defenseman Neal Pionk told reporters Saturday night. “We’ve been through it before and I think we’re learning from it, growing from it.”The Canucks (10-6-2), who are 4-0-2 in their last six games and 1-0-2 on the road trip, absorbed a hard-earned lesson Saturday www.minnesotawildteamshops.com , when Jeff Skinner and Sam Reinhart forced overtime for the Sabres by scoring less than a minute apart in the waning moments of regulation.“We had our chances to put it away,” Canucks coach Travis Green told reporters afterward. “We had some decent efforts and some guys who just weren’t good.”It was the second time on the road trip the Canucks have blown a two-goal lead. Vancouver scored the first two goals against the Red Wings on Tuesday before falling in the shootout, 3-2.“You need to close it out, it’s that simple,” Canucks defenseman Erik Gudbranson told reporters Saturday afternoon. “That definitely burns, but we’ve got to use it to our advantage and not let it happen again.”Since backup goalie Alexandar Georgiev started and earned the win Saturday in the second game of a back-to-back set for the Rangers, it is likely star goalie Henrik Lundqvist will be in net for New York on Monday night. Lundqvist took the defeat in his most recent appearance Friday, when he recorded 28 saves in the loss to the Red Wings.The Canucks, who will play a back-to-back set in New York and visit the Islanders on Tuesday night, are likely to split the starts in the Big Apple between number one goalie Jacob Markstrom Authentic Jaccob Slavin Jersey , who has started the last seven games, and backup Anders Nilsson. Markstrom took the loss Saturday, when he recorded 34 saves. Nilsson hasn’t played since Oct. 25, when he took the defeat after making 26 saves in Vancouver’s 4-1 loss to the Arizona Coyotes.Lundqvist is 8-5-0 in 13 career appearances against the Canucks.Markstrom (six games) and Nilsson (five games) are each 3-1-1 against the Rangers. GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Andre Burakovsky made a mistake that led to Arizona’s first goal and spent most of the night watching pucks repeatedly bounce over his stick.When given a late opportunity, though, he halted the Coyotes‘ four-game winning streak.Promoted to the top line due to Tom Wilson’s injury, Burakovsky made up for his early miscues by scoring late in the third period and lifting the Washington Capitals to a 4-2 victory Thursday.“This game is funny,” Burakovsky said. “You’re playing good, some nights have 1 Jordan Staal Jersey ,000 chances and can’t score, and some nights you’re struggling hard and get one.”Coming off consecutive losses, the Capitals faced one-goal deficits in each of the opening two periods.Jakub Vrana scored his third goal in two games in the first period and Matt Niskanen had one on his birthday in the second. Pheonix Copley turned away numerous good chances while making 27 saves, and Burakovsky scored the winner with 4:42 left on a shot that caromed off goalie Adin Hill’s blocker.Alex Ovechkin added an empty-net goal after becoming the fastest player — ninth overall — to have 5,000 career shots, reaching the mark in 1,031 career games. Marcel Dionne was the previous fastest at 1,215 games.“We’ve been creating chances every game, playing good games, so it’s good to see it pay off Womens Justin Faulk Jersey ,” Vrana said.Christian Fischer scored in the first period, but the Coyotes missed on several opportunities to stretch the lead. Lawson Crouse scored in the second and Arizona again wasted some decent chances in the third before Burakovsky scored.Hill stopped 26 shots, giving up one more goal than he had while opening his Coyotes career with four straight wins.“They made the play, we didn’t,” Arizona coach Rick Tocchet. “We had our chances.”The Coyotes jumped on Washington early when Fischer, who earlier limped off after blocking a shot, one-timed a pass from Derek Stepan from the right circle.Arizona squandered a chance early in the second period when Richard Panik missed the net on a penalty shot.The Capitals ratcheted up the pressure from there, tying it on Vrana’s wrist shot from between the circles that beat Hill to the glove side.The momentum didn’t last.Crouse tied it 90 seconds later, gathering a loose puck between the circles, sliding to his left and beating Copley to the stick side.Niskanen tied it late in the period on a shot that caromed off Arizona defenseman Jacob Chychrun past Hill.The Capitals got their turn for a penalty shot next and also failed when Vrana couldn’t find an opening against Hill.Burakovsky Minnesota Wild T-Shirts Womens , after struggling most of the night, scored the winner on a shot Hill saw, but couldn’t stop.“I got a piece of that shot with my blocker, but I’ve got to make that save,” he said.NOTES: Wilson did not play due to a concussion sustained Tuesday against Vegas. … Arizona lost for the third time in 15 games (11-3-1) when scoring first. … Niskanen turned 32. … Coyotes C Vinnie Hinostroza went out in the first period with a lower-body injury and did not return.UP NEXTThe Capitals play at Columbus on Saturday.The Coyotes host the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.